Major Cuba Art Theft Confirmed
The report of a major theft of valuable Cuban art from the island’s Fine Arts Museum was confirmed on Friday in a statement from the National Council of Cultural Heritage.
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Cuban Doctors in Brazil Get a Sizeable Pay Raise
Cuban doctors sent to Brazil to work in that country’s “More Doctors” program for unattended populations received good news on Friday as their wages were increased considerably. Publicly voiced discontent among a small number of the doctors appears to have received a positive reply.
Read MoreBig Time Theft at Cuba Fine Arts Museum
Nearly a hundred paintings have been stolen from Havana’s National Fine Arts Museum in what could well be the most serious misappropriation of Cuba’s artistic heritage of recent decades.
Read MoreLula in Cuba to Discuss Business and Venezuela with the Castros
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived Monday in Havana as an envoy of the government of Dilma Rousseff, to meet with Cuban President Raul Castro, said Café Fuerte.
Read MoreCuba Loses Two Important International Bank Branches
The Banque Nacionale de Paris (BNP Paribas), France’s largest banking institution, has closed its branch in Havana following an investigation undertaken by US authorities prompted by alleged transactions in violation of the commercial bans on Cuba, Iran and Sudan.
Read MoreCuban Sugar Harvest Dragging
The costly backlog of more than 8000 tons of sugar, by mid-February impedes compliance and a successful completion of this year’s harvest, states a report in the official Granma daily.
Read MoreRationed Protein Products in Havana (Feb. 17-23)
Besides their monthly quota of rice, sugar and a small amount of beans or chick peas, Havana residents also receive a monthly list of “protein products” with their ration booklet. Here is the official monthly distribution info for the period February 17-23.
Read MoreCuba Next Stop for North Korean Ship Released in Panama
The North Korean cargo ship “Chong Chon Gang”, released after paying a fine of $693,333 to the Panama Canal Authority, sailed today at 13:30 GMT from Colon City, in the Panamanian Caribbean, bound for Cuba.
Read MoreCuba Interrupts Consular Services in USA
Cuba announced a new and immediate suspension of its consular services in the United States for an indefinite period, faced with the “impossibility” of finding a bank to service the accounts of its diplomatic mission in Washington D.C.
Read MoreCuba’s Ration Booklet: A Catalogue of Privations
This is the basic consumer basket of the average Cuban: five eggs and some pounds of rice (the kind that “gets sticky”, not cooked) every month, enough sugar to turn a regular glass of water into an emergency breakfast, one kilogram of table salt (with crystals the size of Ping-Pong balls) once every who knows how many months. Placing these product quantities on the same plane as monthly needs entails a complicated mathematical operation.
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